ME 321

Kinematics is concerned with the concepts of position, displacement, velocity, and acceleration in planar mechanisms, as well as the introduction to the design, synthesis, and analysis of gears, cams, and mechanism trains. Kinematics is strictly involved with the motion, i.e., considerations of space and time without regard to the forces that produce this motion. In a sense, this describes the possible motion, or the allowable position, velocity, and accelerations.